Feeding Matters’ Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) Alliance unites the field’s advocates, professionals, family members, and community partners to ignite unprecedented change to the system of care through shared-collective decisions, insights, and ideas. Learn more about the alliance structure.
View open positions for the 2021 Open Call here.
Education Pillar
improves the educational offerings, resources, and opportunities for all disciplines in the pediatric feeding disorder field
Leadership and Committees
Education Pillar Chair: Amy Delaney, PhD, SLP
Conference Committee
determines the conference agenda topics and speakers; works collaboratively to plan and execute a multi-disciplinary evidence-based conference agenda, ensures that educational opportunities are of the highest caliber for attendees
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- Committee Lead: oversees the development of the conference agenda in partnership with the Director of Programs and Events and the conference committee; helps to select committee members and hold them accountable to committee actions (time commitment: 1 year term, 1 meeting per month)
- Committee Members: participates in the development of the conference agenda and contributes to the planning and execution of annual conference (time commitment: 1 year term, 1 meeting per month)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Representative: fully active conference committee member who also ensures that diversity in all areas of PFD is represented
- Scheduling Coordinator: fully active conference committee member responsible for planning committee meetings with members, determining meeting frequency, and creating and sending agendas and meeting minutes
Pre-Conference Committee
responsible for delivering an evidence-based interactive learning event highlighting the family’s voice regarding how PFD is assessed and managed within the PFD community
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- Committee Lead: oversees the development and execution of the pre-conference agenda in partnership with the Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Director of Programs and Events (time commitment: 1 year term, 1 meeting per month)
- Committee Members: participates in the development of the pre-conference agenda and contributes to the planning and execution of the annual pre-conference (time commitment: 1 year term, 1 meeting per month)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Representative: fully active pre-conference committee member who also ensures that diversity in all areas of PFD is represented
- Scheduling Coordinator: fully active pre-conference committee member responsible for planning committee meetings with members, determining meeting frequency, and creating and sending agendas and meeting minutes
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Advocacy Pillar
determines an advocacy agenda and organize a coalition to enhance services for children with pediatric feeding disorder
Leadership and Committees
Advocacy Pillar Chair: Erin Ross, PhD, SLP
Digital Outreach Committee
responsible for building a digital outreach program designed to guide partners of influence, assess website function, drive website revisions, and guide content creation and digital dissemination
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- Committee Chair: oversees digital outreach programming and methods of execution in partnership with Feeding Matter’s staff, helps to select committee members and hold them accountable to committee actions (time commitment: 1 year term, may extend, 1 meeting per month)
- Digital Outreach Committee Members: participates in the development of the digital outreach program, including website analysis, design recommendations, and process planning (time commitment: 1 year term, 1 meeting per month)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Representative: fully active digital outreach committee member who also ensures that diversity in all areas of PFD is represented
- Scheduling Coordinator: fully active digital outreach committee member responsible for planning committee meetings with members, determining meeting frequency, and creating and sending agendas and meeting minutes
Research Pillar
develops and contributes to a research blueprint designed to ignite research, optimize funding, and promote evidence based, family-focused, multi-disciplinary care for PFD
Leadership and Committees
Research Pillar Chair: Haley Estrem, RN, PhD
Research Pillar Chair: oversees the Research direction of Feeding Matters in partnership with Feeding Matters CEO and Director of Strategic Initiatives; helps to select which research committees/projects the organization focuses on; helps to determine project leads; helps to determine committee/project members